Paul E Jr Sigmund (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st ed. xv+379; fr.pastedown has sig., ex-libris stamp and library donation label of same person, t.p. has impressed colourless round stamp of same, underlining + occ. marginal marking pp.12-17 (Clark Hull chapter by Koch), more seriously however verso last page, endpaper and rear pastedown are covered with pencilled notes and also have suffered some kind of adhesion problem as leaves have several holes and pastedown is wrinkled - if it is indeed the pastedown as it appears to be a leaf overlaying the pastedown. Green cloth covers clean and generally sound but spine faded and end-rubbed. Clearly a reference/working copy only of this important set of essays on Clark Hull, Tolman, Skinner, Kurt Lewin and Guthrie, with nearly half being devoted to Koch's merciless demolition of Hull's entire system (he died 2 years before publication and my suspicion, on no evidence at all, is that publication was delayed to spare his feelings, as the book emerged from a group effort in summer 1950). Essential reading for any serious historian of mid-20th century US behaviorism.…